RUSH: I know a number of you are just dying to know, did I break 80 yesterday when I went out and played Bel-Air again? No. I had 84, 85. One of those two, I forget which it was. No, I amnot playing as much as Obama is. I mean, to play as much as Obama I’d have to play for three straight weeks every day. He is playing every weekend this year so far.
It was one week ago today that we launched Two If By Tea, two, t-w-o. One week ago today history was made on this program. Yesterday was one of the greatest programs in the history of the program. I want to thank all of you for the nice thoughts that you expressed in your e-mails about those Reagan sound bites. I went out to the golf course yesterday. I got out there an hour after the program ended, and I met R. J. Wagner, Robert Wagner. It turns out Robert Wagner is a friend of a friend of mine in Palm Beach, the noted thriller author Ted Bell. And I didn’t know that R. J. — that’s how he introduced himself, folks, so don’t get on me — it’s R. J. Wagner, great actor. And all these people were going on and on and on about the Reagan sound bites yesterday.
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RUSH: I want to revisit one more time, Ronaldus Magnus and his reigniting his campaign against Jimmy Carter in 1980 at the Statue of Liberty on September 1st, and this is important. (I’m gonna leave Jon Huntsman out of this time; it’s not the point.) The whole Republican Party needs to wake up and understand what’s at stake here and how to go about it. We have enough destruction taking place here. To sit here and simply say, “To be nice about this, under the guise of civility, isn’t going to get the job done.” When you got somebody that’s causing great problems, this is how you campaign against them…
REAGAN: The Carter record is a litany of despair, of broken promises, of sacred trusts abandoned and forgotten. His answer to all this misery? He tries to tell us that we’re only in a recession, not a depression, as if definitions — words — relieve our suffering. Let it show on the record that when the American people cried out for economic help, Jimmy Carter took refuge behind a dictionary. Well, if it’s a definition he wants, I’ll give him one: A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his!
SUPPORTERS: (cheers and applause)
RUSH: And finally, sound bite 28. There’s this…
REAGAN: I’m looking forward to meeting Mr. Carter in debate, confronting him with the whole sorry record of his administration — the record he prefers not to mention. If he ever finally agrees to the kind of first debate the American people want, which I’m beginning to doubt, he’ll answer to them and to me.
SUPPORTERS: (applause)
REAGAN: This country needs a new administration with a renewed dedication to the dream of America, an administration that will give that dream new life and make America great again.
RUSH: That’s how you do it.
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